The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
OFFICIAL.
Every cotton shipper, fifty dollars;
Every cotton weigher, twenty-five dollars;
Every shoemaker, ten dollars:


or itinerant shows. one hundred dollars per week
or any part thereof
Every grinder of hand organ or strolling
band of musicians, five dollars per week;
Every theatrical troupe minstrel troupe, or
other troupe acting or performing in theatre or
public halls in this city, three dollars for each
performances;
Every person or partnership running a grist
mill, worked by steam, forty dollars; if worked
by horsepower, twenty dollars; every person
running a -four M II. or flour. and grist mill
driven by steam, eighty dollars;
Every bread or cake bakery carried on bv
means of steam machinery, one hundred dol
lars; if carried on without steam, forty dollars;
Every mas er builder, mason or mechanic
ana other mechanics not otherwise taxed, taking
contract for work architects, civil engineers,
surveyors, contractors other than builders,
twenty dollars;
Real estate collectors and agents, and other
collectors and agents, and ticket agents and
scalpers, twenty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of an intelligence
Office ten dollars for each office:
Every mercantile or commercial agency one
Every daily newsper printed by steam, one
hundred dollars: every weekly or other
newspaper fifty, do dollars s;ns every daily
dollars, and every weekly newspaper worked by
hand, ten dollars:
Every job printing Office worked by steam,
gas or water motor, fifty dollars; if worked
without steam gas or water motor, twenty-five
dollars;
Every manufacturer of soda water. selling
from founts twenty five dollars; and manufac-
turing and bottiing s1da water, fifty dollars;
selling soda water from founts, ten dollars for
each fount;
Every public steam laundry, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every public laundry run without steam, ten
dollars;
Every bother of beer or ale fifty dollars;
Every soap boiler and tanner, for each estab-
liShment, ten dollars;
doII for
used;
Every person engaged in the business of gas
fitting or plumbing or both, forty dollars; but
every plumber and gasfitter SHALL on or before
Feb. 10, 1888. make and file with the Clerk of
Council a bond in the sum of $4,000, with good
and sufficient securities, to be approved by the
Mayor conditioned to answer over to said cor
poration for all damages it may sustain by rea-
son of the negligence or default of such plumber
or gasfitter in negligently closing or leaving
open excavations in the public streets;
Every daguerrean artist, photographer, am
brotyper and portrait painter, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every steamboat. vessel or other agency, fifty
dollars; every agency for ocean steamships
each line, one hundred dollars;
Every cotton factory, one hundred dollars;
Each and every copperSmth or manufacturer
of stills, fifty dollars;
Every ice factory one hundred dollars;
Every wholesale dealer In ice, one hundred
dollars; every retail dealer in ice ten dollars:
Each end every museum, twenty-five dollars;
Every gas company, five hundred dollars;
every electric light company, three hundred
dollars;
Every restaurant or eating house, without
liquor license, twenty-five dollars;
Every rice pounding or cleaning MILL with or
without grist mill attached, two hundred and
fifty dollars;
Every fortune teller or aStrologer, twenty-five
dollars;
Every telegraph company or agency, five
hundred dollars; each and every telephone com.
pany or exchange, six hund cred dollars; each
Independent telephone of two stations two dol
lars ad fifty cents.
Every street railroad company, two hundred
dollars, and in addition thereto, as part of the
same tax, twenty dollars for each and every car
employed by such company in the city:
Every keeper of skating rink, twenty-five
dollars;
Every undertaken or coffin warehouse, forty
dollars;
Every person engaged in loading or unloading
vessels by horse power, twenty-five dollars for
each hosting apparatus used;
Every express company. three hundred dol
lars, and in addition thereto, as a part of same
tax, ten dollars for every one horse baggage ex-
press wagon, and eighteen dollars for every two
horse baggage express wagon employed by such
company ~ f1G
Every bin poster or distributor, ten dollars;
Every blacksmith shop, each forge eight dol
lars; 81. A-a Jr
Every owner, proprietor or keeper of buck.
ct shop" or place where futures are Sold five
hundred dollars; fJ
Every cooper shop. twenty dollars;
Every carriage repository, one hundred dol
lars; every carriage shop for manufacturing or
repairing, twenty five dollars;
Every cigar manufacturer O.. retailer twenty
dollars; -i-.
Every dye house, twenty dollars;
Every millinery establishment, ten dollars;
Every gunsmith establishment, ten dollars;
Every foundry, fifty dollars; machine shop,
fifty dollars; every foundry and machine shop,
one hundred dollars;
Every menagere, fifty dollars per day;
Every marble and stone yard, eighty dollars;
Every oyster and fish dealer, forty dollars;
Every shipping master, one hundred dollars;
Each and every shooting gallery, one hundred
dollars;
Every the owner or owners of every green
grocery, one hundred dollars;
Every stencil cutter, twenty dollars;
Every tailor not registered as a merchant, ten
dollars;
Every wheelwright, twenty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of marine rail
way or dry dock, fifty dollars;
Every dealer paying tax as whole
business hereinbefore taxed. paying less
tax than tax for wholesale dealer, without
paying any other specific tax;
Every person engaged in the business of
transporting or carrying goods, wares, mer-
chandise, passengers or bag age, for hire by
means of wagons drays, trucks, carts, omni-
buses, or carriages of any description, or Of let
ting carriages or other vehicles for hire shall
pay tax according to the number and charac
ter of vehicles employed in such business, viz:
every person employing one one-horse cart or
wagon, eight dollars, every person employing
one one-horse dray or truck, ten dollars; every
person employing one one-horse cab, hack
or buggy or vehicle of any description, ten dol
lars; every person employing one two-horse cart
or wagon, dray or truck, eighteen dollars; every
person employing one two horse cab, hack
buggy omnibus, carriage, or vehicle of any
description, eighteen dollars; every person EN-
ploying one three-horse dray or truck, twenty
five dollars; every person employing one four
horse dray or truck, thiTty-five dollars; every
person employing one four-horse omnibus forty
dollars. and the tax to be paid by any person
employing more than one vehicle of the same or
different kinds, shall be according to the num-
Der of vehicles employed, at the rates above
specified.
Every keeper of sale and feed stable, eighty
dollars; but nothing herein contained shall
authorize the keeper of such sale and feed stable
to sell any live stock of any other person with =
out first paving the brokers' or dealers tax as
REQUIRED under this ordinance: every keeper of
a public or livery stable, eighty dollars; every
keeper of feed stable only, fifty dollars: aud
in addition thereto as part of the same tax, ac-
cording TO the number and character of any
vehicles employed in such business, either by
letting for hire or in the transportation of
goods passengers, or baggage, at the rates
above specified for taxes to be paid by persons
engaged in the business of transporting, ETC.
for hire;
Every person employing or using one or more
vehicles of any sort TO be drawn by one or more
horses or mules in connection with any business
delivering goods sold by him or her. or In any
othe manner, shalt pay in addition to the spe-
cific tax required of him for such business and
as part thereof, graduated tax similar TO that